RT Book
T1 A history of the Bible as literature: Volume one: From antiquity to 1700
A1 Norton, David 1946-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1993
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883493276
AB It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first volume of David Norton's magisterial two-volume work surveys and analyses a comprehensive range of these ideas from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century, providing a unique view of the Bible and translation
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016)
CN BS585
SN 9780511621390
K1 Bible : English : Versions : History
K1 Bible : Criticism, interpretation, etc : History
K1 Bible as literature
K1 Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History
K1 Bible ; English ; Versions ; History
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511621390